[Chicken-users] [ANN] meta-chicken layer for OpenEmbedded

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi,

Here where I work (O.S. Systems -- http://www.ossystems.com.br)
we use OpenEmbedded (http://http://www.openembedded.org), which
is, roughly speaking, a framework for cross-compiling Linux
software.

We have been using it to cross compile Chicken and some eggs.
Some days ago we have updated the meta-chicken layer of
OpenEmbedded to use Chicken 4.8.0 and fixed some bugs.  We could
successfully cross-compile and deploy Chicken and eggs from
x86_64 to x86 and ARM.

With the meta-chicken layer integrated to OpenEmbedded, generating
cross-compiled packages for eggs is just a matter of running

    $ bitbake chicken-egg-<the-egg>

For example:

    $ bitbake chicken-egg-awful

would compile Chicken and all the eggs required by awful.  It
generates packages (ipk, rpm or deb) that can be installed with their
corresponding managers on the platform they were compiled to.

The meta-chicken layer is available at
https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-chicken

Best wishes.
Mario
-- 
http://parenteses.org/mario